MD: Thanks for the kind words. I referred to it as an 85mm (diameter) telescope but it is more correctly called a 600 mm F7 apochromatic refractor, one of Al Nagler's good ones, with lots of adaptors in the light path to the camera. It likely equates to about a 2400 mm photo lens, give or take. This was on a photo tripod, no motor drive. All manual metering, focusing, etc. I used various barlows, etc, and so can't recall exactly how much glass was between the moon and the image sensor in this case. The desktop shot is about what the camera viewfinder saw.

I will see if I can find the Saturn shots, they were pretty good, at least to me.

These files are up to 6 mB each, so 80kB samples don't show much, but here are a couple to give the idea.

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2007 X3 3.0si, 6 MT, Premium, White

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2008 535i, 6 MT, M Sport, Premium, Space Grey
2003 X5 3.0 Steptronic, Premium, Titanium Silver
2002 325xi 5 MT, Steel Grey
2004 Z4 3.0 Premium, Sport, SMG, Maldives Blue